Anyone care to share their schedules?

I’m very informal right now with my kindergartener, which really is against my nature. I know in the next year or so I will have to do a more formal schedule, when we have more subjects. Here’s what our day looks like:

Sometime between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. we sit and read. This includes nursery rhymes and a Bible story. It could last anywhere from 20 to 45 min. based on his attention span. Then, most days we take the rest of the morning off. When ds2 goes down for her nap, we finish with math/reading/penmanship, which can take 15-30 min based on how well he cooperates. The exception is Monday, when everything must be completed by 11:30 a.m. or moved to the next day. (I have a part-time job. Most days I report at 4; on Mondays I report at 1.)

Karen

I just finished our schedule this year. It may need some tweaking but it’s a start. 

Family Classes  (will be starting around 9am) Lunch is scheduled for after PE.

Daily     Bible
Daily     History
Mon.    Music     Tues.  Picture study    Wed.  Nature Study   Thurs.  Picture Study     Fri. Gepgraphy
Daily    Latin
Daily    PE
Mon.     Character     Tues.  Shakespeare    Wed. through  Fri.  Character
Daily    French
Daily    Literature

These subjects are done in time blocks. I work with a child one on one while the other children are doing independent work

Block 1 –    13yr old  English,  11 yr old  Spelling,   9 yr old  spelling,   7 yr old  phonics/Reading

Block 2 –   everyone does math

Block 3 – 13yr old  and  11 yr old  Creative Writing ,   9 yr old  English,   7 yr old -English
                
Block 4 –    13yr old  Spelling,  11 yr old  English,   9 yr old  Reading,   7 yr old  Spelling

Block 5 –   everyone does Science

Block 6 – Typing and independent reading

I don’t have set times for our schedule.  My schedule is set up on a spreadsheet in blocks (again no times).  We try to do everything in the morning, but that doesn’t always happen

Mon  scripture memory, math, lang arts, literature, science, history/geo/bible

Tues  scripture memory, math, lang arts, literarture, poetry study, hymn study

Wed  scripture memory, math, lang arts, literature, science, history/geo/bible

Thurs  scripture memory, math, lang arts, literature, art study, nature study

Fri  scripture memory, math, lang arts, literature, science, history/geo/bible

Copywork is mixed in with math and language arts, I don’t have a set block for that yet.  Each subject takes about 15-20 minutes.  Well Literature more because they love me to read aloud to them.     At some point soon I’ll also add in composer study. 

Hope this helps!

Carrie

I uploaded our to Google Docs.

You can view it here. I would probably recommend downloading it and viewing it that way. Google Docs make it so big you cannot see it all at once.

I have 2 9-yr-olds in 4th grade, a 5-yr-old in K and a 3-yr-old who says he’s in charge.

We start at 10 and do the following together daily:

Prayer and scriptures including memorization of one scripture verse (I read a chapter or small section, about 15 minutes)

Circle time (songs, physical activities, picture book – 15 to 20 minutes)

History – all study the same thing (about 15 minutes)- Friday we do geography instead of history.

Math – if I’m working with the 2 oldest the 5-yr-old works on his handwriting sitting next to me so I can help.  If I’m working with the 5-yr-old on math, the older 2 do their “workboxes”.  They alternate so one week the older boys do math first then the next week the younger one does math first.

Science – we all study the same thing, 10 to 15 minutes

Read-aloud – I let them draw or play with toys (no talking) while we read from whatever book we’re reading (10-15 minutes)

It’s about lunchtime now so they run off to play for a few minutes while I make lunch.  On Mondays we listen to the composer we are studying during lunch.  Otherwise we talk or watch BrainPop videos or some other “educational” video.  

After lunch we do our “electives”.  Monday is composer, Tuesday is artist, Wednesday is poetry, Thursday is art (as in how to draw) and Friday is nothing.  All together and about 10 minutes or so.  Actually, on Thursday’s art lesson I have them do it very last because they get really caught up in it and don’t like to stop.  They want to draw it again and again and again….

Then I work with each boy individually while the others do their workboxes or read quietly.  They take turns going first, a week at a time.  For about 20 to 30 minutes I work with each boy on reading and spelling since they’re at different levels.  If the 5-yr-old didn’t get math done yet, I work with him during this time.

We’re usually done between 2 and 3.  Then they can play for a few hours before needing to do their afternoon chores.

I have been known to use a timer in order to make sure things get done in a timely manner.  Mostly though I just keep my eye on the clock or end at a natural stopping place.

This year I made magnets for each subject, and each child if subjects were separated for children (like math for the bigs and math for the little, reading with mom for all 3).  Then I drew columns for each day of the week and put the magnets on, in the typical order we do things.  After we do each subject we take off the magnet.  This way I can easily see what we haven’t done yet that day.  And the kids are holding me to it – we did poetry at 8 pm the other day because I’d missed it and we “needed to take that magnet off.”

Good luck with your schedule!  Four years later and I’m still tweaking mine.

Heather